New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place on the battlefield.

New research has revealed the horrors of the Viking age, as the study of skulls showed evidence of devastating disease and infections. Scientists from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden used ...

At the end of the war, many of these mercenaries were discharged and returned to northern Europe, settling in new fertile lands that extended as far north as Trøndelag in Norway and Ångermanland in ...

The earliest information on Germanic peoples and their culture was recorded in Roman ... where researchers identified ancestry from Sweden in Viking Age individuals who lived in what is now ...

Viking Age Textiles are the passion of Stephanie Anderson ... were asked to do a challenge and we are going to recreate a grave from Sweden. And we recreate the whole thing, everything found ...

A team of experts and enthusiasts discovered the structure at High Tarns Farm in northwest England. Researchers think it dates to between the late 10th and early 11th centuries ...

A 15th-century shipwreck off the coast of Sweden may be Scandinavia's oldest shipwreck built ... They were commonly thought ...

"Norway and the Nordic countries have a pagan heritage to be somewhat proud of. A heritage that few have been aware of," says ...